Mitigating Circumstances
What is Mitigating Circumstances?
The Mitigating Circumstances process is available to all Students with circumstances that they feel may have affected them and their studies.
This can be a range of events including illness, other medical or domestic circumstances, accidents, illness or death of close relative. Events such as weddings, holidays or moving house will not be considered as mitigating circumstances, for more information see the ‘Guidance’ document linked from this page. If you feel that any of your Assessments have been affected, it is important to put in an application for mitigating circumstances.
Please be aware that if you are granted Mitigating Circumstances, your work will be due in for the next resit period, typically as a resit without penalty – eligible for the full mark, unless you already have a fail or non-submission recorded for that component. For modules that are due to be ratified at the Semester 2 Boards (Semester 2 modules and year-long modules) this will mean that your submission(s) will be due in the Summer resit period (August). If you are a final year student, there will be no opportunity for a further resit opportunity (should you need it) in time to graduate in the autumn.
You can submit a Mitigating Circumstances application up to 28 days after the academic work deadline.
YOU SHOULD NOT SUBMIT YOUR COURSEWORK IF YOU ARE APPLYING FOR MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES.
Useful Documents:
Mitigating Circumstances Guidance
Mitigating Circumstances Application Form
Letter of Support Guidance
Letter of Support Template
What to do if you are not happy with the decision?
If you have had a response to an application that you are not happy with, in the first instance, you should check the reasons for the decision. You can do this by contacting the Assessments team.
If you are still not happy with the decision, you may apply for Mitigating Circumstances again, making sure that you provide any further evidence or information to support your application.
If your application is still refused and you feel that this is unreasonable, you can consider taking this further through a formal complaint. You can get advice and support from us on making a complaint.